Technology

Recovering contents in Canvas

Last modified 6/24/2024


Course Recovery

This process is to recover deleted contents within a course. This process will not recover the entire course itself. To recover an entire course, please submit a ticket to Technology Support Center here with information about the Module you are wanting to recover

Content Recovery 

  1. Sign into your Canvas account
  2. Open the course that contains the module you wish to recover
  3. Once you are in the course, add "/undelete" to the end of your course URL in the address bar (Figure 1)
    1. Figure 1

  4. This will open a new page with a list of restore-able items (Figure 2)
    Figure 2
  5. Find the content you wish to restore and select Restore.
    1. Your browser may prompt you with a pop-up asking "Are you sure you want to restore "Name of item"?".
    2. Select OK if you wish to continue (Figure 3)
      Figure 3
  6. Once you finished the above steps, your restored content should be once again be available within the course.

How to Get Help

Technical assistance is available through the Illinois State University Technology Support Center at:

Instructional assistance and knowledge for Canvas are available through the Illinois State University Center for Integrated Professional Development: